Redmond Yawning at Apple-Google Alliance?

Debra D'Agostino writes "Despite the media hype around Google CEO Eric Schmidt's appointment to Apple's board, CIO Insight Executive Editor Dan Briody says it's not that big a story. 'Apple and Google are already plenty tight,' he says. Arthur Levinson, CEO of Genentech, has been on both boards for years. And Al Gore and Intuit Chairman Bill Campbell are both Apple board members and advisors to Google. 'While it's fun to speculate about what an Apple-Google alliance could produce (GoogleMacs? MacGoogle? GoogleTunes?) this move is far from an alliance,' Briody writes. 'And even if it were, it wouldn't be first time that two upstart powerhouses have joined forces in an attempt to unseat Microsoft. Remember AOL-Netscape? Boy, they just steamrolled the team from Redmond, didn't they?'"

Comments

Slashdot lies.

[Gemini_25_RB]

Nothing for you to see here. I don't know about that. If we're lucky, we can all see the fiery explosion that will be the downfall of M$.

Redmond Yawning at Apple-Google Alliance?

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn! And I just bought a lot of stock in office chairs...

Guess I'll have to wait until the next Vista postponement for the price to go back up.

Well hell, and I wanted a Mac

[hcob$]

However, I now no longer want one after I saw this.

And Al Gore and Intuit Chairman Bill Campbell are both Apple board members and advisors to Google.

I'm just waiting for Al Gore to start putting all the profits from the energy conservative iPod Shuffle into a [airquotes] lockbox [/airquotes] to take care of them in their old age.